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Everett rail car leaks
EVERETT, Wash. -- Firefighters and a hazardous material team closed an Everett rail yard for three hours Tuesday after 20 gallons of the explosive chemical Nonene leaked from an improperly sealed railcar, the Everett Herald reported. A safety specialist discovered the...
Chlorine leaks force evacuations
CRYSTAL CITY, Mo. -- A chlorine gas leak created a toxic cloud that sickened more than 50 chemical plant workers and neighbors and closed two highways Wednesday, reported a wire service. The leak began about 9:30 a.m. as DPC Enterprises workers unloaded chlorine from...
Residents evacuated by Missouri chlorine gas leak
FESTUS, Mo. -- A wire service reports that a leak in a railroad car at a chemical plant on Wednesday sent a yellowish cloud of chlorine gas spewing into the air in a rural area of eastern Missouri, and residents and businesses in the immediate area were evacuated,...
Acela might be back Monday
WASHINGTON -- The Federal Railroad Administration yesterday tentatively approved an Amtrak plan that could return its Acela Express schedule to normal as early as Monday, after an abrupt withdrawal of the high-speed trains from service Tuesday for safety reasons,...
Acela runs into new problem
WASHINGTON -- According to the Washington Post, Amtrak again withdrew its Acela express trains from service this morning and scrapped plans to have all of them back on the railroad by Monday after more-detailed tests discovered more cracks in a shock absorber bracket...
Amtrak again pulls all Acela trains
WASHINGTON -- Amtrak canceled all of its high-speed Acela Express service in the Northeast again after raising new concerns about a piece of equipment underneath the locomotives, a wire service reported. The decision was made after a more rigorous inspection of one...
Statement by AFL-CIO President John Sweeney on Bush Economic Forum in Waco and the State of the Economy for Working Families
It's crucial that the forum President Bush is holding today in Waco, Texas, addresses the crisis facing America's working families. Despite a much-touted but anemic "economic recovery," working men and women increasingly are out of work, losing vast amounts of...
Girl injured by train in Durham
DURHAM, N.H. -- A 17-year-old girl struck by the Amtrak Downeaster train at a popular swimming spot escaped with relatively minor injuries, a wire service reported. Samantha Leclair, of Seabrook, was jumping off a trestle over the Lamprey River on Monday afternoon...
L.B. Foster Co. announces additional DM&E investment
PITTSBURGH -- The Iowa, Chicago & Eastern Railroad Corporation ("IC&E"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cedar American Rail Holdings, Inc. which is, in turn, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corporation ("DM&E"), announced the...
Pa. company boosts stake in DM&E
PITTSBURGH -- The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that L.B. Foster Co. of Green Tree, Pa., invested an additional $500,000 in the Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Corp., which is seeking to expand into the Powder River Basin coal fields of Wyoming. The investment...
